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(NoModeL) A. A. BOUTELL.

CIGARETTE MOUTH PIECE. No. 245,604. Patented Aug. 16,1881.

WITNESSES. INVEHTUR.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER A. BOUTELL, OF WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CIGARETTE MOUTH-PIECE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 245,604, dated August 16, 1881.

Application filed November 9,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER ARNOLD BOUTELL, of Windsor, county of Essex, Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigarette Mouth- Pieces; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings,which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide for cigarettesmouth-pieces which can be produced at small cost, and which can be comfortably and firmly held between the lips and teeth of the smoker.

Cigarette mouth-pieces have been formed of glass tubes with a concavity upon one or both sides to afford a hold for the teeth, the edges of the concaved portion being very slightly curved outward to their extreme ends, and the extremities are slightly compressed to an oblong shape. This form of mouth-piece is very awkward to hold between the teeth, and is veryliableto be broken, as the concaves guide the teeth always to a single point, which is thus subjected to a continuous pressure.

In order to overcome the objections to glass mouth-pieces for cigarettes as heretofore made I form such a mouth-piece of a suitablelength of thin glass tubing, flattened at one end to form a mouth-tip having a thin oblong crosssection, with a practically uniform long diameter, considerably greater than the diameter of the main portion which is to be joined to the cigarette. Thus, while the main portion is of that small size and round shape adapted to be snugly'joined to the ordinary cigarette, the portion which enters between the lips and teeth of the smoker is given a shape and lateral dimensions exceptionally easy and agreeable, inasmuch as the lips and teeth are scarcely disturbed from their natural positions, and no effort is required to prevent the mouth-piece from swinging or rolling. The long diameter of the mouth-tip being uniform from end to end, and said tip having a suitable length, it may be shifted longitudinally between the lips and teeth according to the well-known practice of smokers, and is as convenient to hold at one point as at another, the holding-pressure being thus incidentally distributed over different portions of its surface.

To more fully provide for the'secure holding ofthe mouth-piece I may form a series of slight grooves or indentations across the flat outer surfaces of the wide thin mouth-tip, this being effected by suitably corrugating or serrating the surfaces of the tool used in flattening the tube, which, it is of course understood, is softened by heat, in the ordinary manner, in order to be flattened.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a cigarette provided with a glass mouth-piece according to my invention, looking at a flat side of the thin flattened mouthtip. Fig. 2 is a view in the direction of a side edge of the flattened portion. Fig. 3 shows a mouth-piece having the flat surface of its thin mouthtip indented or roughened.

The letter B denotes the mouth-piece, the circular main portion of which is inserted into the wrapper of the cigarette A to a point indicated by a dotted line, the wrapper embracingthemouth-piecesnugly. Iftheshapeofthe mouth-piece continued the same to its outer extremity it would be uncomfortable and difficult to hold between the lips and teeth, as before explained. I therefore flatten it to a quite thin cross-section,forminga mouth-tip, as shown at b, the long diameter of this flattened portion thus being made considerably greater from end to end, while its short diameter is much less than the diameter of that portion which is connected to the cigarette.

It will be seen that ordinary glass tubes of commerce may be readily cut up into short lengths and thus formed into cigarette mouthpieces at a very trifling cost. The cost of such articles is a matter of prime consideration, as the market value of the whole cigarette is very small, and its .accessories must constitute but a small fraction of the expense of production in order that their use be at all justified from a commercial point of view.

The hold or purchase for the lips and teeth extends the whole lengthof the tip, allowing the same to be'shifted longitudinally, so that the holding pressure is not confined to one flattened uniformly from end to end, and havpoint, which would render the tip quite liable in ga practieallyuniform lon gdiameter greater, to be broken. and short diameter less, than the diameter of In Fig. 3 the wide tip b of the month-piece the cylindrical portion, substantially as speci- 15 5 is shown as having its flat surface slightly corfied.

ru gated or roughened for the purpose hereto- In testimony whereof I sign this specificafore explained. tion in the presence of two witnesses.

What I claim is- ALEXANDER A. BOUTELL. Acigarette mouth-piece consisting of a glass Witnesses: to tube having a practically cylindrical portion to ALBERT M. HENRY,

join the cigarette, and an extended mouth-tip FRED 0. PAIGE. 

